Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracian
Baltasar Gracián y Morales, SJ, formerly Anglicized as Baltazar Gracian, was a Spanish Jesuit and baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud. His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 January 1601
CountrySpain
Baltasar Gracian quotes about
time truth lag
Truth always lags behind, limping along on the arm of Time.
depends
We often have to put up with most from those on whom we most depend.
expectations people each-day
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent.
thinking done undone
For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.
friendship real-friends advice
Never have a companion that casts you in the shade.
long favors pay
Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
trying deceit deceiving
Cunning grows in deceit at seeing itself discovered, and tries to deceive with truth itselft.
dog time men
At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
winning shining advice
Display startling novelty-rise afresh like the sun every day. Change too the scene on which you shine, so that you rloss may be felt in the old scenes of your triumph, while the novelty of your powers wins applause in the new.
wisdom war anger
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
birthday justice age
A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
success goal people
Take care to make things turn out well. Some people scruple more over pointing things in the right direction than over successfully reaching their goals. The disgrace of failure outweighs the diligence they showed. A winner is never asked for explanations.
life brain mind
It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.
memories paradise habit
One should cultivate good habits of memory, for it is capable of making existence a Paradise or an Inferno.